We’ve all tested those cheap-old PS2 wheels we have in some cupboard or attic.Īll three have very different sensations to them. I’ve gone on about the wheel and such, I’ll get back to that soon enough, and I do so as a result of playing with all three options of controls: The binary of a keyboard, the more dynamic nature of an Xbox One controller, and now my second or third wheel. I maintain stating there is discomfort, and it is true, but that’s specifically because I usually drive the wheels off of everything like I stole it, yet not here. While I do have that history behind me, I believe this was the first time I’ve had the proper nice feeling wheel to get uncomfortably… Well, comfortable.

As I said several moons ago when I reviewed 18 Wheels of Steel: Haulin’, I’ve been playing SCS Software’s games for nearly two decades. Knowing people close to me who’ve driven and done heavy-duty work like trucking, who find the articulation and reversing business an unthinkably difficult task, it scares me how natural it feels to do it. What I discovered to be inconceivably uncomfortable was how it felt like climbing into your cozy pair of slippers after a long day. I have a proper steering wheel, pedals, and gear stick to make it a little more realistic. I dove back into the European trucking scene recently simply because I felt like it. Even so, I’m scared I qualify for a license simply because all you have to do is change gear, change gear, check your mirrors, kill a prostitute, and change gear.

I might as well have given up my day job of writing nonsense and hopped into that seat for real, though I’m sure there is some kind of law against that, given the number of people I’ve driven through in GTA. At that point, I had to stop because it was becoming too real. The point that made me stop playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 last time, as I do intermittently hop back into my truck, was the point I began to search for online radio stations in-game.

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